JRS seeks volunteers
and staff who share its vision of accompanying refugees and forcibly displaced
persons and who are prepared for its complex tasks. JRS volunteers and staff
may be lay persons, Jesuits or members of a religious congregation. JRS seeks
specialists in education, counseling, rehabilitation, management and related
fields, and especially with experience in training others. There are also needs
for people with technical skills, especially in communications, law,
agriculture and small-scale development work.

Which qualities does
JRS require?

In addition to the
obvious desire to serve refugees and asylum seekers, human maturity,
considerable flexibility of temperament and a capacity to understand refugees
and their circumstances without losing objectivity, these five qualities are
essential: